A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of Saint John

John Napier, A Plaine Discovery, of the Whole Revelation of Saint Iohn (Edinburgh: Robert Walde-grave, 1593), first treatise, Proposition 14, pp. 16 and 20–22 (Internet Archive NapierJohn.APlaineDiscoveryOfTheWholeRevelationOfSaintJohnSet, two-page spreads at BookReader leaves n15, n17, n18). Proposition heading from p. 16; reckoning from p. 21 (“Therfore, from this yeare of Christ 365.”) to p. 22 (“vtterlie nothing at all.”); the intervening argument on pp. 16–21 omitted and marked […]. Long s (ſ) rendered s; ligatures expanded; roman and italic type not distinguished; line-end hyphenation joined; spacing normalized (one space after punctuation, paragraph breaks as blank lines); running heads, catchwords, signatures, marginal notes and reference asterisks omitted; spelling, capitalization, u/v and i/j usage and punctuation otherwise as printed; omissions inside the selection marked […]. Transcribed from the Internet Archive page images and checked against the item's OCR text layer. Tilde abbreviation retained in “apparãtly”; “æternallie” and “Irenæus” keep the printed ligature.

Proposition 14, pp. 16, 20–22